Is Spring suitable for building a public web site?

Question

Spring

Spring is said to be ideal for enterprise applications. As for regular web sites, PHP is preferred there.
I know a lot of sites that use JavaEE to generate web pages. For example amazon, ulmart, classmates and others. Which of them use spring and do they use it at all? Does it make sense to use Spring MVC to generate HTML pages?
I know Java SE well, there is a VDS server raised with Tomcat. I know the basics of JSP. Is it worth digging towards Spring to create a website?

Answer 1

depending on what level the "normal" website is.
maybe you can get by with html+css+js. (in the 2000s I wrote instructions on how to add new articles to a site where there was not even PHP)
perhaps you will be satisfied with a generator of static sites like MiddleMan, Jekyll, Octopress. You can even publish it on GitHub.
Next, see ready-made CMS.
Further, if you need something more complicated (want to store pages in the database, etc.), you can try Spring, GWT, Tapestry.
For the PHP to Java style, see Play Framework.
I myself am a fan of the latest framework, and successfully sculpt on it, and praise it, but personally it may not suit you (if you are too lazy to figure it out)